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Approach to Contemporary Lithuanian Textile Art:

NOT FOR USE

Today creative textile innovations are on the rise in contemporary Lithuanian art. Many international competitive exhibitions, personal shows and group presentations have become the most crowded art events, gathering the lovers of textile culture from all over the world to the textile centres-cities Vilnius, Kaunas and Kėdainiai. Contemporary artists conceptualise textile material as well as ancient or innovative techniques, devoting their attention to basic human demands – search for identity (personal identity as well as a national one). Themes relating to body and tactility, childhood fairytales or comfortlessness of self-presentation unlock the striving of the artists to speak about personal experience through connotative nature of textiles. Lithuanian poems, which are known by heart, woven into the carpets and steal plates exquisitely embroidered by our grandmothers’ patterns, unfold archetypical approach to the national history, experience, heritage and icons. Using diverse forms of conceptual textile, main Lithuanian textile artists (Laima Oržekauskienė, Lina Jonikė, Eglė Ganda Bogdanienė, Inga Likšaitė, Severija Inčirauskaitė-Kriaunevičienė, Monika Žaltauskaitė-Grašienė, Feliksas Jakubauskas, Vita Gelūnienė, a group “Baltos kandys”, etc.) propose experiments between the textile tradition (loom weaving, hand embroidery, and felting) and the textile innovation (jacquard weaving, machine embroidery, silkscreen-print, and industrial felt), creating objects not for use or consumerism, but for the need to speak about the essential topics of today’s reality using contemporary cultural approaches. That’s why working in co-operation with textile industry companies for a contemporary artist is not only a possibility, which is practiced in Lithuania, but rather a necessity conditioned by time.                                
Virginija Vitkienė

 

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From left to right:
Kristina Šaudytė. 3EX. 2007. Sewing. Smoked pig skin.
Bronė Neverdauskienė. One Thousand Stories. 2005. Silkscreen-printing, mixed technique. (In cooperation with JSC Nagas).
Severija Inčirauskaitė - Kriaunevičienė. Snowdrop. 2006. Industrial felt. (In cooperation with JSC Neaustima).
Inga Likšaitė. I-Lamps. 2007. (In cooperation with JSC Skinija).
Monika Žaltauskaitė - Grašienė. 2006. Skin Pictures. Computerized viewing. (In cooperation with JSC Audėjas).
Inga Likšaitė. Shadows Mickevičiaus g. 43. 2006 / Dreamer. 2006. Sewing. (Sponsored by JSC Coats Lietuva).

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From left to right:
Agnietė Janušaitė. 2007. Sterile. Mixed technique. Severija Inčirauskaitė-Kriaunevičienė. 2005. Life is Beautiful. Embroidery on metal. Patricija Gilytė. 2007. Forest of Anykščiai. Wool carpet and video. (Implemented at JSC Lentvario kilimai).

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From left to right:
Inga Likšaitė. I-Lamps. 2007. (In cooperation with JSC Skinija)
Monika Žaltauskaitė - Grašienė. 2006. Skin Pictures. Computerized viewing. (In cooperation with JSC Audėjas).
Inga Likšaitė. Shadows Mickevičiaus g. 43. 2006 / Dreamer. 2006. Sewing. (Sponsored by JSC Coats Lietuva).
Centre: Bronė Neverdauskienė. One Thousand Stories. 2005. Silkscreen-printing, print on cloth, mixed technique. (In cooperation with JSC Nagas).

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From left to right:
Bronė Neverdauskienė. One Thousand Stories. 2005. Silkscreen-printing, print on cloth, mixed technique. (In cooperation with JSC Nagas).
Severija Inčirauskaitė - Kriaunevičienė. Snowdrops. 2006. Industrial felt. (In cooperation with UAB Neaustima) / Faded Rokoko. 2007. Embroidery on metal.
Inga Likšaitė.  I-Lamps. 2007. (In cooperation with JSC Skinija).